zcesur
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Comment · 2 years ago
I like your take here, thank you
Comment · 2 years ago
You stream from your OBS directly to Algora, just like Twitch. And we let you multistream to YouTube, X, Twitch just like Restream.
The ads is a new feature, the cool thing is they don't interrupt the stream and show across all platforms.
Comment · 2 years ago
Most of our users multistream to Twitch, YouTube and X through Algora! We also support aggregating live chat comments from these platforms and embedding them on your screen, and more recently, livestream monetization via in-video ads
Comment · 2 years ago
Creator of Algora here, thanks for sharing! This was a pleasant surprise :) I posted about our Elixir bounties yesterday on Reddit, and I was not expecting to see it on HN front page the next day.
I've been building this since early this year. Over the past few months, developers like Daniel Roe (Nuxt.com maintainer), Chris Griffing, Andras Bacsai (Coolify.io maintainer) have been livestreaming with Algora their coding sessions, office hours, product launches, podcasts, and more.
Algora TV supports free multistreaming to Twitch, X, YouTube, custom RTMPs [1] and aggregates live comments from these platforms.
I chose to build Algora in Elixir because of a few reasons: 1) Productivity gains from using Phoenix LiveView are unparalleled as a solo developer 2) OTP is super helpful for handling complex streaming pipelines. Things like multistreaming, mirroring chat messages, capturing thumbnails etc. can fail at any time, and OTP makes it easier to build fault-tolerant processes 3) BEAM clustering allows distributing the system across multiple nodes with ease, which helps reduce latency between streamers and viewers.
As the sole maintainer of the project, I'd love to get your help with improving Algora! If you're up for contributing, I've put up a bunch of bounties [2] to prioritize some issues.
In any case, I'd love to hear from you if you have any feedback or questions!
Comment · 2 years ago
Duly noted, we're probably going to add local accounts at some point. For the time being, limiting to GitHub auth has been really helpful to keep the platform focused on developers and combat spam.
Any S3-compatible storage should work fine! That being said it would require a lot more work to set it up as you also need to worry about caching, replication, distribution etc. For a livestreaming platform it's super important to ensure livestreams are available globally to minimize latency for viewers.
Tigris has all of this built-in, so it already behaves like a CDN. It's what we use on https://algora.tv and we wanted to make getting started as easy as possible for our contributors and anyone who's looking to self-host.
Comment · 2 years ago
I work in a relatively small TS monorepo and waiting on VSCode Intellisense to load the types breaks my flow quite often. A plugin like this would help identify the complex types in the codebase
Comment · 2 years ago
The challenge is to build an open source MIT-licensed VSCode plugin that shows you the time-to-load of a type in TypeScript
Comment · 2 years ago
Daniel Roe (Nuxt maintainer) is livestreaming his attempt! https://tv.algora.io/danielroe/latest
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